The Commission approved a settlement resolving admitted violations of the ISO-NE tariff, 18 C.F.R. Part 35 regulations related to Market Based Rate authority, and Celerity’s market based rate tariff for submission of inaccurate data to the ISO, receipt of overpayments for demand response services, and untimely filings with the Commission.

The Commission approved a settlement resolving findings under the Reliability Standards for inappropriate load shedding based on failure to perform operational planning to replace generation requirements and failure to adequately train the operators on the circumstances that permit load shedding.

The Commission approved a settlement resolving findings under the Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers, 18 C.F.R. Part 385, and Alliance’s transmission tariff for using its parent company to share non-public transmission information with an affiliate and for failure to make that information timely available to other customers.

The Commission approved a settlement resolving findings under 18 C.F.R. § 37.6(e)(1) and PacifiCorp’s OATT for failure to properly administer and enforce the customer mechanisms for reserving and paying for transmission.

The Commission approved a settlement resolving admitted violations under the Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2, and under 18 C.F.R. § 35.41(b) that Gila River falsely labeled transactions submitted to the CAISO in order to artificially relieve congestion at interties and thereby improve profits on certain imports.

The Commission issued an Order to Show Cause asking Barclays and the named individuals to explain to the Commission why they should not be found to have violated the Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2, for trading electricity in the western United States to affect the index price at which related financial instruments settled.

The Commission approved a settlement resolving admitted violations under 18 C.F.R. Part 284 for releases of short-term, discounted gas pipeline capacity without posting and bidding and for failure to post the terms and conditions of certain releases; and under the Commission’s capacity release program requirement that shipper must have title and the prohibition against buy/sell arrangements.

The Commission issued an Order to Show Cause asking Silkman to show why the Commission should not issue an order finding a violation of the Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. 1c.2, for fraudulently inflating baseline energy consumption in the New England ISO market in order to later claim greater energy curtailments, and payments, in the Day-Ahead Load Response Program (demand response).

The Commission issued an Order to Show Cause asking Competitive Energy Services, LLC to show why the Commission should not issue an order finding a violation of the Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. 1c.2, for fraudulently inflating baseline energy consumption in the New England ISO market in order to later claim greater energy curtailments, and payments, in the Day-Ahead Load Response Program (demand response).

The Commission issued an Order to Show Cause asking Lincoln Paper and Tissue, LLC to show why the Commission should not issue an order finding a violation of the Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. 1c.2, for fraudulently inflating baseline energy consumption in the New England ISO market in order to later claim greater energy curtailments, and payments, in the Day-Ahead Load Response Program (demand response).

The Commission issued an Order to Show Cause asking Rumford Paper Company to show why the Commission should not issue an order finding a violation of the Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. 1c.2, for fraudulently inflating baseline energy consumption in the New England ISO market in order to later claim greater energy curtailments, and payments, in the Day-Ahead Load Response Program (demand response).

The Commission approved a settlement resolving findings under 18 C.F.R. § 35.41(b) and Vista’s market based rate tariff for misrepresentations and violation of Commission terms and conditions related to the extent of individual investor’s involvement in company activities.

The Commission approved a settlement resolving findings under the Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2, and under 18 C.F.R. § 35.41(b) for trading energy in ISO-NE and NYISO to affect market prices for the benefit of financial instruments based on those prices, and for misrepresenting the purpose of the trades when questioned by the NYISO market monitor.

The Commission approved a settlement resolving findings under the Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2, for registering resources in PJM’s demand response program that he knew were unavailable to respond to events and receiving payments for load reduction those resources did not provide.

The Commission approved a settlement resolving findings under 18 C.F.R. Part 284 for releases of short-term, discounted gas pipeline capacity without posting and bidding; and under the Commission’s Open Access Transportation requirement that shipper must have title and the prohibition against buy/sell arrangements.